Kauzlarić Atač Zlatko – Rab 2019

He was born in 1945 in Koprivnica. After finishing high school, he enrolled at the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb. During his studies, he became involved in the work of the Student Experimental Theatre. He graduated in the class of Prof. Miljenko Stančić and immediately became a collaborator in the master workshop of Prof. K. Hegedušić, and in 1973 he became an assistant at the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb, where he currently works as a full professor and served as dean for a period. Alongside painting and graphics, he intensively worked in scenography and costume design, collaborating on about a hundred theatre projects domestically and internationally, as well as several film and television projects. He is also the author of several visual interventions in public spaces. In 1996, a monograph signed by Tonko Maroević was published about him. He has received many awards for painting and scenography, as well as the Order of Danica for Cultural Merit. His existence in the field of painting has been marked by works—those first created during his involvement with the “Biafra” group (from 1970), portraits of famous people in expressive motion, nudes, and numerous self-nudes. From the very beginning, the author has inherited a sense for the expression of the moment, rhythm, movement, and characteristic artistic engagement. His current painting preoccupation is with nudes immersed in water, where drawing is replaced by the dominance of pure painterly treatment of the surface with color, revealing the virtuosity of a master who does not suppress expression through figurative depiction.